Achebe’s Women A Feminist Reading of Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah

A feminist reading of Achebe's texts is a restoration of the visions of women not only in Africa's past but also in the continent's present and the future. Chinua Achebe’s debut novel, Things Fall Apart, was published in 1958 against Western anthropological themes that denigrated Africa as a dark, brooding continent of people without culture, or at best, whose cultures required the benign intervention and guidance of Western civilizing thoughts and structures. Given the literary dominance